As explained in a previous post, one of the two NASA’s WB-57Fs, after performing test activities at Nellis AFB, arrived at Lajes Field, Azores, on Mar. 5, 2012. Local spotter and photographer Leandro ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—Fending off obsolescence is a full-time challenge for military aircraft operators, and even more so for the handful of follow-on users of secondhand equipment that are employed for ...

Two NASA WB-57F research aircraft successfully tracked the August 21 solar eclipse as part of a NASA project led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to study the solar corona and Mercury's surface.

Southwest Research Institute is leading two groundbreaking experiments — on the ground and in the air — to collect astronomical data from the total solar eclipse that will shadow a large swath of the ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—NASA says the two-person flight crew of a vintage WB-57F high-altitude research aircraft were unharmed after the aircraft made a gear-up landing at Ellington Field, Texas, on Jan 27.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A NASA research aircraft made a gear-up landing in Houston, after experiencing a mechanical issue on Tuesday, January 27, ...

December 5, 2014: One of the three NASA (U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration) WB-57F high altitude research aircraft was recently spotted (via a commercial satellite photo) in a ...